I had the chance last week to lie around the beaches of south Maui, and that gave me plenty of time to check out how great the paspalum looks on the lawn areas at the hotels and golf courses, come up with some new things to write about overseeding, and assess my horrible college football picks so far this season. I know I have covered the basics of seeding and fertilizing, but since these steps are so vital to the success of a winter lawn I am going to tell you how to push the growth and fight off the loss of color when the frost hits.

The weather is finally starting to cooperate, and we are in prime overseeding season from now till early November. It appears that the night time temperatures will start to drop into the high 60’s by mid week and the day time temperatures will be in the high 80’s. It has been a long hot summer (as they all are!), but this one seemed particularly brutal to me. Read the rest of this entry »

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